• Christopher J. Lee

Nthikeng Mohlele’s novel Small Things (2013) provides a rejoinder to J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace (1999), depicting a black man’s perspective on the failures of South Africa’s transition.

• Daniel Okechukwu

Filmmaker Akin Omotoso shows the Lagos that pushes the sane to insanity, the meek to thuggery and the lawful to anarchy.

• Phindi Mnyaka

One of the few books about photography to come out of the continent and where the majority of contributors are African and work on the continent.

• Meleko Mokgosi

Meleko Mokgosi’s multimedia works offer complex views of history and powerful critiques of pan-Africanism and the postcolonial moment we are currently living.

• Atiyyah Khan

During Christmas 1980, Hugh Masekela and Miriam Makeba performed at a concert in Lesotho that deeply challenged and disturbed South Africa’s apartheid regime. The record of that concert is being reissued.

• Brindley J. Fortuin

No child should choose between having food, love, and a roof over their head or being their full self.

• Prexy Nesbitt

Historian Peter Cole’s book on dockworkers in apartheid South Africa and San Francisco gets beyond slogans to vital historical truths.

• Jordan G. Teicher

Mitigating climate change's impact on the Sahel by planting trees across it, is not enough. Averting disaster requires even bigger thinking.

• Sarah El-Shaarawi

A new book of essays offers a nuanced glimpse into the complexities of reporting on the Arab world, including North Africa.

• Greg Thomas

The works of Frantz Fanon can be read as architectural renderings of rights, futures, and generations toward a “very different Afro-futurism.”

• Serawit Bekele Debele

Irreecha, an annual ritual celebrated at the end of Ethiopia’s rainy season, offers a window into contemporary socio-political issues.

• Lily Saint

The historical novel is in vogue across the continent, challenging how we conceive of the nation, and how we write its histories.

• Charles Etubiebi

A Nigerian play and its leading man confront western misrepresentations.

• Norbert Odero

For immigrants—especially African and black immigrants to Western countries—the question of home is complex.

• Daniel Steyn

South African film production house kykNET's dominance skews storytelling on the country's screens.

• Nathan Yardy

While Sisulu's political career is less celebrated than Nelson Mandela, it was as remarkable.

• Greer Valley

Decolonizing museums requires more than knowledge exchange and lending back stolen artifacts.

• Ari Sitas

The world is out of joint and Immanuel Wallerstein, one of its great public intellectuals, has left us—albeit with tools to battle the dying kicks of capitalism.

• Debbie Onuoha

A new film by Aiwan Obinyan explores the origins and "ownership" of a now-famous cloth.

• Renée Mussai

Riason Naidoo talks to the curator and editor of a book and traveling exhibition about the work of the legendary, 90 year-old Ghanaian photographer.